[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from April 15 (reply #14) . The following only shows part of the letter. A more complete version is presented at the Civil War Notebook blog I copied on the next reply.

Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

[colorado tanker]

I did not realize there was such open talk of secession in the South even before Lincoln was a candidate.